Notes of an Anesthesioboist

Wherein an adult student of oboe chronicles her adventures in music, medicine, and faith, and other stories... “Novelists, opera singers, even doctors, have in common the unique and marvelous experience of entering into the very skin of another human being. What can compare with it?” -Willa Cather

Friday, May 2, 2008

A Wish for Divining

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I met a teenage girl who had a devastating familial neurologic disease. She couldn't walk. In fact, she couldn't move any voluntary ...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Lost in Beantown in a Silver Punch Buggy; and, Why I Blog

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Ordinarily I would be using this blog to vent about the day I had today at work, where I spent over two hours trying to manage someone who w...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

What Can One Person Do?

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In Prior Convictions: Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith? , an article in this week's New Yorker , Jill Lepore descr...
Friday, April 25, 2008

My Other Favorite Instrument

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Mr. Phil, a balloon-making entertainer, was chatting with us at the local diner last weekend and figured out that we all play musical instru...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Brief Book Meme

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Elaine Fine, who writes the blog Musical Assumptions , sent me the following meme/game today: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 1...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Inexpressible

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I have to talk about it. I can't not talk about it. Underneath all the daily routines, the anesthesia work, the chopping of vegetables f...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

How a "Humble" Task Taught a Humbling Lesson

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During my residency I had the opportunity to spend several months getting some pediatric anesthesia training at Children's Hospital in B...
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I'm a wife & mom. I'm a doctor too. I listen to classical Christmas carols all year round (they make me happy). I also love to read, write, cook, eat, dance, play music, and ponder things. I do a lot of my pondering here.
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